Art Decade

Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem - Cher Here's another nice song from this album. Thanks Wary Meyers for the pic.

Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers: New Steel Guitar Rag

Waylon Jennings - Abilene If you happen to be stuck in traffic - or stuck in a rut - I can think of worse fates than having this to sing alo...

Junior Delahaye - Movie Show I like a minor-key love song. (dub)

Emmett posted this some five years ago and yet I've only recently discovered the below, from what I believe is Michael Lindsay-Hogg...

new Viva show ( #120 ) in the archive

The Cake - Baby That's Me Written by Jack Nitzsche and Jackie DeShannon. And yes, it's just a hair's breadth away from Be My Bab...

Walter Wanderley Trio - It's A Lovely Day Today Words and music by Irving Berlin, born Israel Baline on May 11, 1888, in Belarus. Irving...

Gerry Pond - The Sometime Girl

The Mamas & the Papas - Creeque Alley If you have some time to while away, by all means go here . I was most interested to discover a t...

Fiona Fullerton - The Me I Never Knew Here's a song sung by Alice as the finale to a 1972 BBC production of Alice's Adventures in W...

Bela Fleck - Spain Chick Corea gets the Bela Anton Leos Fleck treatment here. That's right - Bela Anton Leos. As in Bartok, Webern, Jan...

Soft Rock - Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey An instrumental version, so you can sing along with the choruses, as Big B is wont to do, when he...

The Great Society - Love You Girl Many thanks to the lads in MGMT for peeling this one off in their Late Night Tale . The melody keeps bring...

The Sopwith Camel - Fazon One of my New Year's resolutions was to not post any more music with wah-chicka-wah-style funk rhythm guitar i...

General Strike - My Other Body A set of humans made a series of decisions several years ago, and this was the result. Special thanks to Dan ...

Harry Nilsson - Save the Last Dance for Me Just some good lost weekend music.

Neil Diamond - Lady Oh Off of 1976's Robbie Robertson-produced Beautiful Noise . This with Robbie Robertson on guitar, Bob James with ...

Hatsune Miku Orchestra - Nice Age It's come to this.

Joe Dassin - Le Jardin de Luxembourg Salut les Amoureux "Like many Russians, Olga adored Joe Dassin, especially the songs on his last a...

Improved Sound Limited - Nine Feet Over the Tarmac Suicide Road With a tip of the hat to my brother , here are two songs by Improved Sound L...

Elton John - Amoreena OK, this is the third time I've posted this song, but it's that good. And we haven't heard this version...

Stephen Stills - Midnight in Paris From 1976's not very good Illegal Stills , here's a track written by Donnie Dacus and Stills'...

The Beach Boys - Little Bird Dennis Wilson comin' at ya off of Friends . I feel like the string section should be given the sample trea...

Bee Gees: I Close My Eyes From the b-side of the Bee Gees' 1st . Add it to the list of classics released in 1967.

Terry Melcher - Beverly Hills The Old Hand Jive And speaking of Terry Melcher...

Al Hazan - Just Another Broken Heart Get ready to hit play again and again on this one from Al Hazan. Some things to know about the man, fr...

Chris Robison - I'm Gonna Stay With My Baby Tonight Special thanks to Wombletunes for this one.

Eddie Hooper & Storm - Pass It On (Part 1) Although I already recommended purchasing an mp3 of this, I have to post it now--slightly sl...

2011: The Year In Review Igor Stravinsky - Otche Nash Brenda Lee - The Crying Game Zoo - Hard Times, Good Times Tuesday - Sewing Machine Fra...

Marie Moor - Illusions Since no one has offered to send me their copy of this record yet, I'm posting a sweet youtube rip of it for now....

Je Demain - L'Hiver Au Bord De La Mer Special thanks to TV Disko for the tip on this one. Lordy, we haven't posted any hibernian Fr...

Roy Panton - Endless Memory

Subway Sect: Ambition

Oak Cliff String Band: Dallas Rag song history " an old-timey howdy-do "

Tom Zé - Defect 2: Curiosidade

Does anyone have a copy of this record they want to give me?

The Seldom Scene: Doing My Time and a more popular cover Baby Blue ; Live at the Cellar Door

Duran Duran - Save A Prayer (after disco rough edit)

Cooley-Munson: Sightly Sue Nice bit of history on this stellar track here . Thanks to KnowPhase for introducing me to Sue.

The Twistin' Kings: Xmas Twist This tune comes courtesy of a pal in Memphis.

Igor Stravinsky - Otche Nash Neo-renaissance moves from Igor on this setting of the Slavonic "Our Father." Composed in 1926 and re...

A bit of goth for the Yuletide. Bauhaus: Dark Entries

Virgin Prunes - Sandpaper Lullabye

X: Come Back to Me

Lone Star - She Said, She Said Dear Santa, For Christmas this year, I would like an eight-and-a-half minute, totally overblown prog-boogie c...

new Viva show ( #118 ) in the archive

Wizzard - See My Baby Jive From an era when 3-minute pop songs were sometimes 5 minutes long (c.f. Tyrannosaurus Rex, "Hot Love", ...

Miller - Baby I Got News For You

Marvin Gaye: Star-Spangled Banner Marvin singing the national anthem at the 1983 NBA all-star game. This one goes out to NBA legend Earl Mon...